The Folklore of Pregnancy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13651078 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Connie Goldfarb (Kingsborough Community College, corresponding author), Connie Serouya Goldfarb (Kingsborough Community College of The City University of New York) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 891-900 |
| Publication date | 1988-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Psychological Reports (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2466/pr0.1988.62.3.891 |
| PMID | 3406307 |
| OpenAlex | W2113045008 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 9 |
The similarity of attitudes towards pregnancy and childbirth was investigated in two studies. Study 1 examined the attitudes towards the preference of the sex of first- and second born children among 1169 college students, who were not yet parents, in four samples, from 1978 to 1986. Five percent of the men and 9–2% of the women preferred Girl-Girl; 21.4% of men and 12.7% of women, Boy-Boy; 14.8% of the men and 29–2% of the women Girl-Boy, and 51.7% of the men and 426% of the women Boy-Girl. The same pattern of differences between the groups appeared over the 8-yr. period. Study 2 compared five ethnic groups on five categories of attitudes and superstition related to pregnancy and childbirth and found significant differences among the groups based upon the groups' patterns of immigration to the United States—the longer the ethnic group as a whole had been in the United States the lower the index of folklore. Rank order of the five categories of superstition was consistent among all of the ethnic groups surveyed
Childbirth · Developmental psychology · Ethnic group · Folklore · Girl · Pregnancy · Superstition · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · Demography · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Medicine · Psychology
Parental predetermination of the sex of offspring
The Relationship Between Attitudinal and Behavioral Measures of Sex Preference
Sons or daughters? Cross-cultural comparisons of the sex preferences of Australian, Greek, Italian, Malay, Chinese and Indian parents in Australia and Malaysia
Psychiatric disturbances during pregnancy in a rural group of African women
Folklore of Pregnancy
Sex Preferences, Sex Control, and the Status of Women
Traditional Healers and Their Female Clients
| Citations per year | 0.09 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1992 - 2018 (27) |
| Highly cited | No |